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Miniaturized technologies for high-throughput drug screening enzymatic assays and diagnostics - A review

Paul Joseph Dyson, Sarah Alexandra Pais Pereira

Drug discovery is a complex, multistep process, in which many challenges need to be overcome at each stage, from the discovery of a biomolecular target to the ensuring of the efficacy and safety of a compound in humans. Today's analytical methods allow ten ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

A novel cell-based sensor detecting the activity of individual basic proprotein convertases

Daniel Constam, Karin Irmgard Löw, Stefan Kunz

The basic proprotein convertases (PCs) furin, PC1/3, PC2, PC5/6, PACE4, PC4, and PC7 are promising drug targets for human diseases. However, developing selective inhibitors remains challenging due to overlapping substrate recognition motifs and limited str ...

WILEY2019

Design and validation of bioorthogonal probes for cellular disease models

Pier Luca D'Alessandro

Well-validated chemical probes enable testing of biological hypotheses, investigation of target tractability and translatability to the clinical phase. Consequently, these important tool compounds play a key role in the drug discovery process. Moreover, th ...

EPFL2019

Microfluidic high-content phenotypic screening on a Caenorhabditis elegans model

Maria Cristina Letizia

Caenorhabditis elegans is a performant model system for studying human biological processes and diseases and for pre-clinical phenotyping screenings of compounds. Microfluidics has been instrumental in enabling C. elegans-based drug assays, facilitating th ...

EPFL2018

Inhibiting Mycobacterium tuberculosis within and without

Stewart Cole

Tuberculosis remains a scourge of global health with shrinking treatment options due to the spread of drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Intensive efforts have been made in the past 15 years to find leads for drug development so that bet ...

Royal Soc2016

Homogeneous time-resolved G protein-coupled receptor-ligand binding assay based on fluorescence cross-correlation spectroscopy

Luc Henry

G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) mediate many important physiological functions and are considered as one of the most successful therapeutic target classes for a wide spectrum of diseases. Drug discovery projects generally benefit from a broad range of ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2016

Encoded libraries of chemically modified peptides

Christian Heinis

The use of powerful technologies for generating and screening DNA-encoded protein libraries has helped drive the development of proteins as pharmaceutical ligands. However the development of peptides as pharmaceutical ligands has been more limited. Althoug ...

Elsevier2015

Lead selection and characterization of antitubercular compounds using the Nested Chemical Library

Stewart Cole, Ruben Hartkoorn, Edina Rita Székely

Discovering new drugs to treat tuberculosis more efficiently and to overcome multidrug resistance is a world health priority. To find novel antitubercular agents several approaches have been used in various institutions worldwide, including target-based ap ...

Elsevier2015

A virtual screening approach to identifying the greenest compound for a task: application to switchable-hydrophilicity solvents

Luc Patiny, Philip Gregory Jessop

A virtual or in silico screening approach makes it much easier to identify the molecular structure that best combines efficacy for a specific task with safety and minimum environmental or health impacts. In this approach, software is used to generate a lar ...

Royal Soc Chemistry2015

Label-Free Cytotoxicity Screening Assay by Digital Holographic Microscopy

Pierre Magistretti, Christian Depeursinge, Gerardo Turcatti, Benjamin Rappaz, Marc Chambon, Jonas Kühn, Etienne Shaffer, Jérôme Parent, Julien Mena

We introduce a label-free technology based on digital holographic microscopy (DHM) with applicability for screening by imaging, and we demonstrate its capability for cytotoxicity assessment using mammalian living cells. For this first high content screenin ...

Mary Ann Liebert2013

A Brain-Permeable Small Molecule Reduces Neuronal Cholesterol by Inhibiting Activity of Sirtuin 2 Deacetylase

Sirtuin 2 (SIRT2) deacetylase-dependent inhibition mediates neuroprotective reduction of cholesterol biosynthesis in an in vitro Huntington's disease model. This study sought to identify the first brain permeable SIRT2 inhibitor and to characterize its cho ...

American Chemical Society2011

Identification and characterization of novel classes of macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF) inhibitors with distinct mechanisms of action

Hilal Lashuel, Bruno Claude Daniel Fauvet, Magdalena Zweckstetter, Hajer Ouertatani-Sakouhi, Farah El Turk, Min Kyu Cho

Macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF), a proinflammatory cytokine, is considered an attractive therapeutic target in multiple inflammatory and autoimmune disorders. In addition to its known biologic activities, MIF can also function as a tautomerase ...

American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology2010